We've got the scoop on 'Battlestar'

January 06, 2006|By Maureen Ryan.

When "Battlestar Galactica" kicks off again on Sci Fi at 9 p.m. Friday, be prepared for twists and turns as the season heads toward a conclusion that's full of "curveballs," says exec producer Ron Moore.

- Friday's episode opens with the showdown between Commander Adama and Admiral Cain.

- "The destruction of the [Cylon] resurrection ship impacts the way the Cylons deal with Galactica and the colonial fleet the rest of the season. ... They stop trying to make full-blown, all-out assaults on the fleet and go into a hit-and-run mode while they figure out a way to replicate the ship."

- "Epiphanies" (Jan. 20) centers on a health crisis with President Roslin, and there are flashbacks to her previous life on Caprica: "We see the president she worked for and there are some surprising revelations about their relationship. As the fleet prepares for [vice president] Baltar to take over," Baltar comes up with some surprising revelations of his own, Moore says.

- "We do an episode that's really about fighter combat," Moore says. "There's a Cylon raider that keeps coming, just keeps coming. He kills a bunch of pilots. It's their dark shark in the water, he keeps coming to get people."

- "There's an episode ... we're really excited about [that] is told from the Cylon point of view: what their society is like, what they go through during reincarnation and when they're born again. We really get inside the Cylon [society] and get to view that for the first time."

- "There's a two-part season finale. We throw some real curveballs. There are some major changes in how we do business. It's really going to catch people off guard."